As to the Bellman's poetry, Milton will occur to every one: "Or the bellman's drowsy charm To bless the door fromnightly harm.
This at once marks him as a lover of the pale moon's nightly beams.
The high seas slumber pillowed on Earth's breast; All flocks and birds and beasts are stilled in rest, But my sad eyes their nightly vigil keep.
Rose, surprised, for, entering her room, there was the cantatrice, busy about the nightlyservices she always rendered her little mistress.
A well-worn footstool stood beside the bed, and in the high-piled whiteness of the empty couch there was a little hollow where a gray head nightly rested while Aunt Plenty said the prayers her mother taught her seventy years ago.
At sunset he took his share of the rations dealt out nightly to the slaves, but although he was faint from emptiness the sight of the food turned him sick.
And now day had faded from the sky, and gracious Phoebe trod mid-heaven in the chariot of her nightly wandering: Aeneas, for his charge allows not rest to his limbs, himself sits guiding the tiller and managing the sails.
It was torn--ay, dreadfully torn, by some nightly dog.
She wondered dully how that wee star away off there could blink so peacefully in its nightly course when just below it beat a heart that hurt like hers.
How many tragedies of this sort are there nightly in the metropolis, none the less tragic because they are subjects of jest in the comic papers and on the stage!
The nightlyconcerts in the beer-gardens must have shivering listeners, if the bands do not, as many of them do, play within doors.
Forever the cottager gilds the same With nightlypyrotechnic flame; And it's O the Isles!
Then of beer-gardens there is literally no end, and there are nightly concerts in them.
The constellations were not made from any geography of the heavens, but from actual nightly observation of the positions of the heavenly bodies.
He kept through life her Bible and Prayer Book; they were placednightly under his pillow in the first days of anguish that followed her loss, and ever after they were the inseparable companions of all his wanderings.
This child, for whom he had prayed nightly in such a fervour and humbleness to God, the dangers were about him, the temptations thick on him, and the devil on board piloting.
I shall want a flaxen wig and eyebrows; and my nightly rest is broken by visions of there being no such commodities in Canada.
Then, too, shall the Uncommercial resuscitate (being at presentnightly murdered by Mr. W.
In the former the discrowned king sings, as he rises from his nightly bivouac.
To us as to him, the silent splendour of noonday speaks of God, and the nightly heavens pour the soft radiance of His "excellent name over all the earth.
Braine came and wentnightly without discovering any one.
Miss Susan Farlow had just returned to the reception room from her nightly tour of the upper halls to see if all her charges were in bed, where the rules of the school confined them after nine-thirty.
There was almost an apologetic air about the bill-boards proclaiming their nightly offering to be the 'biggest ever.
For a second he thought that dawn might be breaking, and that his hour had arrived; but an officer came up the steps, and he saw with a quiver of relief that it was the nightly inspection.
Lady Durwent, who had just come from her nightly grand-duchess parade of the patients, was busying herself with her knitting, and was in obvious good spirits.
Edward was also distinctly informed that if he did not at once desist from his nightly wanderings, his life would not be worth a farthing.
But though he made it a general practice during hisnightly excursions to return home in time for the morning’s work, he occasionally found it necessary to deviate a little from this rule.
Yet he had no sooner recovered, than he was out again at his nightly work.
As soon as his day’s work was over, he started on his nightly expedition.
Now all my hours are trances; And all my nightly dreams Are where the dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams, In what ethereal dances, By what Italian streams.
Oh, the eyes that dance around me and the joyous faces there Keep me nightly guessing wildly: "Is it something I can wear?
RICH Who has a troop of romping youth About his parlor floor, Who nightly hears a round of cheers, When he is at the door, Who is attacked on every side By eager little hands That reach to tug his grizzled mug, The wealth of earth commands.
Are those the Normes that beckon onward As if to Odin's board, Where by the hands of warriors nightly The sparkling mead is poured?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nightly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
